Vassiliki Sinopoulou
Senior Research Assistant, UCLan Cochrane Gut Group
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Vassiliki's main expertise is in Cochrane systematic reviews and guidelines for conditions and diseases that affect the human gut. Vassiliki is working for the Biomedical Evidence synthesis and Translation to practice (BEST) unit at UCLan. Their interests include evidence-based medicine, research communication, food and nutrition, and community pharmacy. Vassiliki is also a Registered Dietitian with clinical experience.
In their current role alongside Prof. Morris Gordon, Vassiliki manages the authoring teams for many of UCLan's Cochrane Gut ongoing reviews and protocols. As part of an NIHR research grant, they have published Cochrane systematic reviews on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). They also organise and help deliver Cochrane systematic reviews workshops for clinicians and medical students, and workshops for IBD patients. These aim to increase patient involvement in the group's research.
Vassiliki's previous role here was as a Research Assistant in Community Pharmacy alongside Prof. Paul Rutter. During that time, they carried out research projects on community pharmacists' decision-making and diagnostic skills, pharmacy education and Emergency Department Pharmacy Services in collaboration with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals' Pharmacy team. Vassiliki's past experience includes projects that studied the effect of dietary fibre and prebiotics on children's satiety and appetite. They have worked in the fields of food product development, nutrigenomics and as a clinical Dietitian. They have also done consultation work as a Nutritionist on a project examining the potential of insects as a protein source for human consumption.
- MSc Nutrition and Health - specialisation Molecular Nutrition, Wageningen University 2010
- BSc Dietetics-Nutrition, Harokopio University of Athens, 2008
- UKCPA 2018 Patient Safety Award
- Cochrane Systematic Reviews
- Guideline development
- Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE)
- Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis (IBD), Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders (FAPDs), Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE), and others
- Dietetics and Nutrition
- Cochrane Gut
- HCPC Registered Dietitian
- BSPGHAN
Vassiliki's current work is on systematic reviews as part of Cochrane Gut, and methodological support for guideline development through the GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) framework. They are currently working on the development of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) guidelines for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and international guidelines for functional abdominal pain disorders (FAPDs).
They have published papers on pharmacological, dietary, probiotic, and psychosocial interventions for IBD, FAPDs, and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), as well as methodological papers. They also have publications in the fields of community pharmacy, and appetite and obesity.
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- View their unique and persistent identifier on the ORCiD registry
- Full list of publications and articles on CLoK
- Google Scholar
- Cochrane Gut
- BSPGHAN research committee
- Network meta-analyses (NMA) for medical interventions for the treatment of IBD and EoE
- Medical, probiotic, dietary, and psychosocial treatments for FAPDs and childhood constipation
- Remote care through telehealth and patient education for IBD
- NIHR programme of high priority Cochrane systematic reviews to investigate the management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: “Optimal biologic and immunomodulator therapies, diet therapies, telehealth and education interventions."
- NIHR Cochrane IBD Programme grant (2017), both of which were awarded to Prof. Morris Gordon
- DDW 2022, 2023 (invited speaker)
- ESPGHAN 2022, 2023 (speaker)
- BSPGHAN 2022 (speaker)
- Crohn’s and Colitis Congress, 2020
- NIHR Complex Review Support Unit meeting, 2019
- United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association Conference, 2018
- International Social Pharmacy Workshop, 2018
- Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference, 2018
- Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference, 2017
Telephone:+44 (0)1772 895945
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